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Prosecutor John Donovan gives his closing arguments in the Cecil Rice trial on Tuesday afternoon, December 5. Rice is accused of pushing Anthony Walthers from the Old Steel Bridge causing him to drown in the river and be swept out into Flathead Lake on April 26. Donovan countered the arguments given by Steven Scott and called attention to the difference between the actions of the bystanders who called 911 and raced along the shore trying to save Walthers, who was a stranger to them, and the actions of Rice, who knew the victim and left the scene making no effort to help Walthers.(Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)

Prosecutor John Donovan gives his closing arguments in the Cecil Rice trial on Tuesday afternoon, December 5. Rice is accused of pushing Anthony Walthers from the Old Steel Bridge causing him to drown in the river and be swept out into Flathead Lake on April 26. Donovan countered the arguments given by Steven Scott and called attention to the difference between the actions of the bystanders who called 911 and raced along the shore trying to save Walthers, who was a stranger …

December 5, 2017

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Guilty verdict in Old Steel Bridge murder
December 5, 2017 8:09 p.m.

Guilty verdict in Old Steel Bridge murder

A jury on Tuesday quickly concluded that Cecil Thomas Rice purposely pushed Anthony Walthers to his death from the Old Steel Bridge in Evergreen last April.